Saturday, September 27, 2014

SaintPetersblog: One US Senator is renewing efforts to challenge the NFL's "non-profit" status, something touched upon on this site over the years. After all, how many other non-profit CEOs can you name that make $44M/yr? Of course, the NFL spends enough lobbying to make sure the threat disappears.

UPDATE: Field of Schemes and Bloomberg point out the NFL may be essentially passing its tax-exempt status along to its teams...which doesn't pass the sniff test, even if it is exploiting a legal loophole in the law

SunSports: Rays television ratings continue to kill it, propelling the network to a No. 1 rating among all cable TV channels in primetime this season.

Vice Sports: Race is a huge challenge to the Atlanta Hawks and their fellow ATL sports teams. That's the real reason why, as I wrote last year, the Braves are moving to the 'burbs.